claquements
\klak.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“claquements” is uncommon French (frequency #62,863 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,863
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de claquement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-claquements · claquements · French
claquements · rank #62,863 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,863
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH claquage
Nearest frequency peer: claquage (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « claquements »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- claims
claims
37,141 corpus weight
- clapier
clapier
37,140 corpus weight
- claquage
claquage
37,139 corpus weight
- claquements
claquements
37,138 corpus weight
- cler
cler
37,137 corpus weight
- clinic
clinic
37,135 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « claquements » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | claquements |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \klak.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #62,863 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « claquements » en français
Rare enough to double-check
claquements is uncommon French at frequency #62,863 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \klak.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de claquement.".
Zero misspellings are on record for claquements in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is claquements, spelled C-L-A-Q-U-E-M-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de claquement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how claquements appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors, le victimaire s’acharna sur eux avec son fouet dont les lanières portaient des ergots de fer, des pointes acérées qui mordaient les chairs avec des claquements sinistres.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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